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N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) Arnold's March to Quebec 1937 Oil on canvas, 40 x 31 1/2 in. (101.5 x 80 cm) Private collection NCW NUMBER 366 TITLE Arnold's March to Quebec ALTERNATE TITLE(S) Arnolds March on Quebec MEDIUM Oil on canvas INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S) Lower right: N. C. WYETH (underlined) SUBJECT illustration DATE 1937 PROVENANCE The artist to 1939; [?]; (Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1957); Collection of Ruth A. Yerion, Amagansett, NY; Private collection, NY, and descended in family; (Christie's, NY, New York, May 20, 2010, lot no. 61; did not sell); EXHIBITION HISTORY Portland, ME, 1938; New York, NY, 1957, no. 103; Rockland, ME, 1966, no. 71; New York, NY, Coe Kerr Gallery, "A Tribute to American Realism, The Collection of Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion," Jan. 7-31, 1976, as "Arnolds March on Quebec," unpaginated; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(2); Chadds Ford, PA, 1980, cat. no. 74, b/w illustration p. 32, text p. 33 INITIAL USE Color illustration f. p. 298, Kenneth Roberts, Trending Into Maine (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1938) REFERENCES "The Romance That Is Maine's," The Boston Herald, June 19, 1938, Rotogravure Section, unpaginated; Fred Cook, The Golden Book of the American Revolution (New York: Golden Press, 1958), p. 32; Robert G. Athearn, The Revolution, vol. 3 (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963), p. 211; American History Illustrated, vol. III, no. 7 (Nov. 1968), cover illustration in color; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 216; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1230, p. 558, 559 CURATORIAL COMMENT This subject was not part of Wyeth's original illustrative program (see NCW to A. R. McIntyre, Little, Brown & Co., March 23, 1936, Kenneth Roberts Papers, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH), constructed before Wyeth saw Roberts's outline. The subject does appear in a revised list of illustrations Wyeth sent to Roberts in Oct. 1937 (see NCW to Kenneth Roberts, Oct. 4, 1937, Kenneth Roberts Papers, Dartmouth College Library). The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.71) of composition drawing used in the transfer of the image from paper to canvas. IMAGE SOURCE Digital photography from directly from painting PHOTO CREDIT Courtesy of Christie's, 2010